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General reality has settled down for the moment after my mental and emotion chaos following the wake of Christmas. Ed's starting to move into his new apartment, I've started walking my dogs again, and I am back to smoking nearly a pack of cigarettes a day. I guess the whole quitting thing never got off the ground, and just between you and me, I don't have the resolve to quit something so addictive (it's pathetic, I know). Although I am still astounded by my ability to turn down pot without any second thoughts.
A strange, intriguing fear has settled in my heart: the end of the world. Have you ever heard of the Bible Code? I know, it sounds like a crock of shit, and many believe in it as such--a coincidence, statistical anomaly, or a parlor trick. This is how it works: Someone using the Torah (still in Hebrew, mind you) searches for a word or small phrase in a context of Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS's, for short). Every letter picked in the sequence is put in a matrix (grid)--an ELS of five would yield a matrix of five columns. What occurs in the end is a grid of letters similar to a word find... and what the researchers do is look for words or phrases in any given matrix that are related. Researchers opposing the theory of the bible code use Moby Dick as their sample text, and similar findings occur... which somewhat debunks the theory of the Bible Code.
(by the way, I spent two hours of my life watching this on the History Channel)
Getting to the point, the matrices that are important are the ones that have the most key words in the closest proximity in the smallest matrices. Stuff regarding Princess Diana's death, 9/11, and other major past events have cropped up. One of the most chilling findings was the locating of matrices with biographical information regarding the most significant researchers of the Bible Code itself. That's freaky, if you ask me. And, of course, many researchers looked into The End of Days, Armageddon, The Apocalypse, and so on. The general findings indicate that a comet or large meteor will strike the earth in 2012. That may mean little to you on face value, but if you're like me and know that the Mayan civilization ended their calandar at that year because they dictated that would be the end of the world, then it will chill your bones below absolute zero.
Now, as some of you may know, I don't believe in God as most do. He's not some white-robed figure sitting on a golden throne in the clouds surrounded by angels. I do, however, believe in E.T.'s. The three theories surrounding the Bible code is 1) that God wrote it and gave it to humans, 2) Number 1, but with aliens instead of God, and 3) a human from the far distant future travelled back in time and left the code as a means for humanity to prepare for the end of the world and more. I believe in option 2. You can ask me in person later, if you want.
Another curious fact to consider is that the immensity and complexity of the Bible Code would be absolutely impossible for people to decypher without the aid of computers. Did God/Aliens/Future Humans know that the time for the knowledge in the code would only be important in the coming years prior to 2012? It is entirely possible that the seemingly irrelivant facts regarding Napoleon, the Challenger incident, 9/11, Sir Isaac Newton, and JFK's assassination would simply be qualifiers for the bible code--simple irrelivant little factoids to reify the code's existance and authority. Imagine the author of the code: "Okay... are they going to believe this crap about the end of the world? Maybe I should throw some crap in there about Thomas Jefferson and Adolf Hitler to seal the deal..."
Of course, this is all just my opinion. Hundreds of people world wide are researching this: both attempting to justify it and discredit it. For the sake of my life and those I care about, I really, REALLY hope that all the end of the world stuff is crap.
Well, that's all I have to say--rather regurgitate from a two-hour long TV show.
A strange, intriguing fear has settled in my heart: the end of the world. Have you ever heard of the Bible Code? I know, it sounds like a crock of shit, and many believe in it as such--a coincidence, statistical anomaly, or a parlor trick. This is how it works: Someone using the Torah (still in Hebrew, mind you) searches for a word or small phrase in a context of Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS's, for short). Every letter picked in the sequence is put in a matrix (grid)--an ELS of five would yield a matrix of five columns. What occurs in the end is a grid of letters similar to a word find... and what the researchers do is look for words or phrases in any given matrix that are related. Researchers opposing the theory of the bible code use Moby Dick as their sample text, and similar findings occur... which somewhat debunks the theory of the Bible Code.
(by the way, I spent two hours of my life watching this on the History Channel)
Getting to the point, the matrices that are important are the ones that have the most key words in the closest proximity in the smallest matrices. Stuff regarding Princess Diana's death, 9/11, and other major past events have cropped up. One of the most chilling findings was the locating of matrices with biographical information regarding the most significant researchers of the Bible Code itself. That's freaky, if you ask me. And, of course, many researchers looked into The End of Days, Armageddon, The Apocalypse, and so on. The general findings indicate that a comet or large meteor will strike the earth in 2012. That may mean little to you on face value, but if you're like me and know that the Mayan civilization ended their calandar at that year because they dictated that would be the end of the world, then it will chill your bones below absolute zero.
Now, as some of you may know, I don't believe in God as most do. He's not some white-robed figure sitting on a golden throne in the clouds surrounded by angels. I do, however, believe in E.T.'s. The three theories surrounding the Bible code is 1) that God wrote it and gave it to humans, 2) Number 1, but with aliens instead of God, and 3) a human from the far distant future travelled back in time and left the code as a means for humanity to prepare for the end of the world and more. I believe in option 2. You can ask me in person later, if you want.
Another curious fact to consider is that the immensity and complexity of the Bible Code would be absolutely impossible for people to decypher without the aid of computers. Did God/Aliens/Future Humans know that the time for the knowledge in the code would only be important in the coming years prior to 2012? It is entirely possible that the seemingly irrelivant facts regarding Napoleon, the Challenger incident, 9/11, Sir Isaac Newton, and JFK's assassination would simply be qualifiers for the bible code--simple irrelivant little factoids to reify the code's existance and authority. Imagine the author of the code: "Okay... are they going to believe this crap about the end of the world? Maybe I should throw some crap in there about Thomas Jefferson and Adolf Hitler to seal the deal..."
Of course, this is all just my opinion. Hundreds of people world wide are researching this: both attempting to justify it and discredit it. For the sake of my life and those I care about, I really, REALLY hope that all the end of the world stuff is crap.
Well, that's all I have to say--rather regurgitate from a two-hour long TV show.